Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:01:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> To: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using AMD with NFS Mounts Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1208291757120.7395@scooby.simplesystems.org> In-Reply-To: <1825065717.1296363.1346280093679.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> References: <1825065717.1296363.1346280093679.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Rick Macklem wrote: >> >> It would be more reasonable to re-use the Sun automounter code from >> Illumos which should be under CDDL license like zfs. The Sun >> automounter code is more mature than Linux automounter and has fewer >> missing features and fewer bugs. >> > I had actually thought that the Mac OS X autofs was based on the Solaris > one, but I could be incorrect? You are probably correct. I noticed that the Mac OS X Leopard autofs template configuration files were byte-for-byte identical to those on Solaris 10. I also found that the Mac OS X automounter worked fine. > with Alfred's port and there may be others I am not familiar with. I am > also not familiar with any patent issues that might exist. Talk of patents > does make me nervous, but I would hope that the CDDL'd code would be ok > to include as a loadable module.) The automounter seems rather low-tech and I can't imagine any active patents which might apply to it. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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